California Chaplains Told To Stop Praying ‘In Jesus’ Name’

This maybe one of his most important videos about Christians not forcing their beliefs on others.  When I was getting ready for my left hip replacement the PA who was processing me was clearly Christian.  She wore crosses and all the ornaments of her faith.  When we got to my stay in the hospital she said “And of course you will want a visit from the Chaplin, what Christian denomination would you prefer”.  Absolutely none I said.  She wouldn’t accept it but then kept asking if I was willing to have this sect / denomination visit.  I was getting pissed.  Ron stepped in and told her if any clergy enters that room, Scottie will claw his way out of the bed to drive them into the hallway … No way is anyone of any religion welcome.  She was upset and angry.  She got her revenge.  She failed to send my pain medication requirements to the hospital so I went from early afternoon to midnight with no pain medication after surgery, and it was not the fault of the nurses.  They called her and the doctor, then just kept called him.  Finally he answered at midnight and was so angry. WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME, MY PA HANDLES THESE CALLS.  They told them they couldn’t get in touch with her, she was not answering and I was in horrible pain from serious surgery.  He told them to put me on my home medications which was the plan as my pain doctors were handling it, so soon I got morphine and other drugs.  She got her revenge, no hate like Christian spurned.  When I went for my follow up I learned she had been fired.  I hope my 10 hours of horrible pain was worth it to her.  

Trump’s Responsibility Now That He’s Been Convicted

Jon Stewart Tackles The Trump Conviction Fallout & Puts The Media on Trial | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart breaks down the response to Trump’s guilty verdict from Joe Biden and the media, as well as the GOP’s vow for revenge and hypocritical complaint about Democrats pursuing “political prosecutions.” Plus, Jon pleads with the media to act a little more like the court system and examine evidence and reach conclusions, instead of wildly speculating on future realities. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Trump

FRC: Ten Commandments Belong In Schools Because All The “Other Religious Ethical Statements Are Myths”

This is complete nonsense.  Our founding fathers were trying to escape the rule of a country run by kings and religion.  They could have made Christianity the nations religion but they did not, and did not want that.  I recently heard that the reason fundamentalist Christians want the ten commandments which is a Jewish symbol from the Old Testament instead of the beatitudes from the New Testament is they don’t like or follow Jesus but do like the vengeance, violence, and anger of the OT god.  These people should be listed as domestic terrorists.  They can not be compromised with.  They can’t be happy with them being allowed to live as they want, they demand the right to force you to live as they do.  They are a minority in a minority that is shrinking.  Yet they managed to get their people into positions of power so they are even more dangerous.   Hugs.  Scottie

 

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website:

The Louisiana legislature has passed a bill that “requires schools that receive public money to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said on Thursday’s “Washington Watch,” and “the anti-Christian Left is convulsing.”

“We’re focused on the historical aspect of the Ten Commandments, which all of our laws are derived from,” bill sponsor Louisiana Rep. Dodie Horton (R) explained to Perkins.

Skeptics will still ask, but why are the Ten Commandments displayed and not other religious ethical statements, like the writings of Confucius or Native American myths? One answer is America’s historical development. This great nation was not built by Confucians or Muslims, but by people informed by the Bible and the moral teachings found therein.

Therefore, “We want our children to see what God’s standard for our moral conduct is,” urged Horton. “We’re not asking the teachers to teach it, but we want our children to be able to see one — that there is a God, and that he does have a moral standard [by] which they need to conduct themselves.”

Read the full article. In the interview below, Perkins tells Horton that lawsuits against posting the Ten Commandants in Louisiana schools will fail because “we’ve got a new [Supreme] court.” Horton replies, “We do, praise God!”

 

How can a Christian Nationalist group or groups dictate how public money, via taxes, be spent or allocated by forcing public schools to display religious text? That’s what Sunday school is for. When will all religions be taxed like any other corporation. Talk to me about grooming again.

  • Meanwhile, as a civil service worker, I haven’t had an actual raise, except for cost of living adjustments to bring us more on the lowest level of private enterprise, since I was hired. So I might get a 2 or 3 percent adjustment, but my health insurance goes up 5%.

    All three versions of the Ten Commandments, two in Exodus, and one in Deuteronomy, are based on the legal code of Hammurabi. There is some tweaking, to compensate for cultural differences, but they are, by and large, the legal code of Hammurabi.

     

  • ”This great nation was not built by Confucians…” These bitches really have no idea who this country was built by. See also: Enslaved people.

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    Religion (of any type) belongs in their churches, synagogues, mosques, etc. It does NOT belong in our schools. The Christo-fascists are trying to force their beliefs onto kids and that’s just totally wrong. And should be illegal. And they are trying to force their religion into laws affecting everyone. Fuck that shit. I agree with so many commenters on here – religion is poison. Fuck their god, Jeezus and everything in their warped view of the world.

    “This great nation was not built by Confucians or Muslims”

    Christians wouldn’t have built shit without the mathematics the Muslims perfected, and Christians wouldn’t have “discovered” this continent if they didn’t have such a rabid taste for the goods the Confucians were selling them.

    Fred Clark wrote about the history of the La. Commandments poster law.

    Louisiana Will Post The Twelve Commandments In Schools

    ‘That’s a problem, because there are a lot of different versions of the Ten Commandments, all of which are phrased and enumerated differently. The version of “The Ten Commandments” mandated by Horton’s bill is not taken from any of those. It is, instead, the version concocted in 1950 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Cecil B. DeMille.

    Yes, really.’

    As you might predict if you didn’t know, the Fraternal Order of Eagles was a racist organization.

    https://www.patheos.com/blo…

    “we’ve got a new [Supreme] court.” Horton repliess”

    They’re so high on their own farts right now. Never mind that new Supreme Court was put there by a convicted felon.

    Also I love it when I get lectured by Christians on why they’re God is real and the rest are fake.

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    Florida Cities Raise Pride Flags Over City Halls After Failed GOP Attempt To Ban Them From Govt Buildings

    The good people are fighting back now.  DeathSantis and his fundamentalist minority have pushed decent people too far.  But look for a response from the right wing shock troops, the Proud Boys, the militias, the other right wing gang thugs.  Hugs.  Scottie

     

    Tampa’s WMNF reports:

    Several Tampa Bay area cities have raised the LGBTQ Pride flags over city buildings this weekend. But that would have been illegal if a bill that died in this year’s Florida Legislature had instead become law.

    On Saturday morning the city of Gulfport in south Pinellas County raised the Pride flag over its public library. It came after a short ceremony of speeches honoring the city’s commitment to equality and before a day-long block party celebration of Pride.

    The nearby City of St. Petersburg raised its LGBTQ Pride flag over City Hall on Friday. Meanwhile, the City of Clearwater will host Pride events but will not fly the Pride flag at a city building.

    Read the full article.

    Also raising the Pride flag over their city halls this weekend were Tampa, Wilton Manors, Miami, and Orlando. If you know of any others, let us know in the comments.

    The Republican bill to ban Pride flags at government buildings passed earlier this year in the Florida House, but died when the state Senate ran out of time to vote on the issue before the session ended for the year.

    Of note, an amendment to the Senate version of the bill would have allowed the Confederate flag, something its sponsor later claimed was as “error.”

     

    Funny how the party that’s always going on about the First Amendment and free speech is always trying to ban speech they don’t like, in this case flying a flag.

    “Freedom” to the fascists means “You are FREE to do what WE tell you to do.”

     

    This is vivid example of what I said yesterday about opposing a gay tourism boycott of Florida. Aside from the fact that countless of our people make their money that way, the major cities in Florida, most of which are run by Democrats, are overwhelmingly on our side.

    While boycotts hurt the wrong people many of us trans folk do not feel safe traveling to any state that has bathroom ban legislation on the books.

    Very understandable. And as I also said yesterday, I completely understand why gay families with children would choose to leave the state.

     

    AND you (and all of us) can be refused medical care. What if I get food poisoning, have car accident? And gay-bashed. I won’t want someone’s ‘sincere’ religious beliefs to interfere with my ‘sincere’ desire to stay alive and healthy.

    I was just in a Tires Plus shop to replace a tire. I had to use the bathroom, so I asked where it was. The guy at the desk pointed to it, and said it was the door to the left. It was marked Ladies!!! The men’s bathroom was out of order, and the guy told me that it was “Uni-sex”!!!

    I replied, that I am glad for the Democracy and Equaiity!!!

     

    I was in the Eureka/Arcata/McKinleyvillle area of northern California last weekend and every restaurant bathroom I went into was M/F/Who Cares? As they should be.

    Bootsy is stamping his little high heeled lifts like a toddler having a tantrum….

     

     

    Lara Trump Suggests RNC Won’t Back Larry Hogan’s MD Senate Bid: He Doesn’t Deserve The Respect Of Anyone

    There is no republican party anymore.  It is gone and needs to be placed in the history books of the past.  It is the cult of tRump party, or tRump party for short.  Or maybe Cult party.  But the tRump party is out to destroy anyone or anything that doesn’t clearly glorify and help the dear leader of the cult who is tRump.  Republicans have told the family members with trans kids they don’t believe the laws they are voting for … but if they don’t they will be primaried and lose their seat, so lose the easy money.  The former republicans are all fearful of the new party, the cult of tRump.  The choose the easy money of being in office rather than their dignity or honor or even doing the correct thing for the country and the people.  Hugs.  Scottie

     

    Politico reports:

    Lara Trump, the Republican National Committee co-chair and daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, dodged answering whether the RNC will support Maryland Republican Larry Hogan’s run for Senate after Hogan called for Americans to respect the verdict.

    “I don’t support what he just said there. I think it’s ridiculous,” Lara Trump said when asked by CNN’s Kasie Hunt if the RNC will support Hogan on “State of the Union” Sunday morning.

    “I think anybody who’s not speaking up in the face of really something that should never again have seen the light of day, a trial that would never have been brought against any other person aside from Donald Trump, doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone,” Lara Trump added.

    Read the full article. Maryland’s Senate seat could turn out to be the deciding factor in whether Democrats maintain control of the chamber.

    Stephanopoulos Shuts Down Trump Lawyer’s Claim That Biden Is Behind New York Trump Case: “Zero Evidence”

    Finally and about time reporters are starting to push back against tRump and his sycophants lies.  Maybe Fox losing a almost a billion dollars for endorsing lies might have wakened them up.  Stephanopoulos was angry the guy kept saying it even after he corrected him several times.   Hugs.  Scottie

     

    Trump lawyer Will Scharf: “This case in New York? It was called the zombie case. It sat and sat and sat. It could have been brought at any point after 2020. And then suddenly, when President Trump announced his campaign for president, it was dusted off, rushed in front of a grand jury and then rushed into court.

    “You want to talk about the politicization of the legal system? I mean, this is exhibit A. I vehemently disagree that the district attorney in New York was not politically motivated here. And I vehemently disagree that President Biden and his political allies aren’t up to their necks in this prosecution.”

    ABC host George Stephanopoulos: “There’s no evidence of that! Sir, I’m not gonna let you continue to say that! There’s just zero evidence of that! This has nothing to do with President Biden.”

    RELATED: Scharf is running for Missouri attorney general and a couple of weeks ago Jimmy Kimmel had a field day with Scharf’s very creepy smile, calling him “the first human attorney to be generated by AI.” The clip below is cued up.

    Why don’t they want to talk about the fact that Bill Barr made Cy Vance, through the U.S. Attorney in Southern District of NY, to squash this case, meaning it had to wait for a new, Biden-appointed attorney general to reignite it? And why aren’t people bringing this up every single time???

    This case had been squashed by Bill Barr. After he quit the DOJ, the case was reactivated.

    Why even have these trumpanzies on? They just repeat all the bullshit that their master has said at every presser. And Missouri is getting more and more fascist with brainwashed idiots like this guy.

    One of the things that’s so ridiculous about blaming Biden is this: Why the DA? Why didn’t Biden just command the DOJ to prosecute Trump for this?

    Why have the DA prosecute a lowest-level-felony false-business-record case, when DOJ could have prosecuted Trump for the same coordinated-expenditure federal election crime Michael Cohen went to jail for? Or the plain-as-day tax crime of issuing a phony Form 1099 to Cohen disguising reimbursement as ordinary compensation?

     

     

     

    Let’s talk about MTG, Fauci, and a hearing….

    Jon Stewart Assures Young Voters That Their Voice Matters | The Daily Show

    Jon Stewart reminds young people that they have an incredible amount of power in deciding the future of America in this

    Is America Competitive?

    Trump thinks American wages are too HIGH for us to be “competitive”. My question is: Competitive for whom and by what metric?